[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/2] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Apr 22 16:49:33 CEST 2019


On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 07:34:20 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> > +
> > +uint64_t __rte_experimental
> > +rte_rand(void)  
> Do you really want to mark this as experimental?  I know it will trigger the
> symbol checker with a warning if you don't, but this function already existed
> previously and was accepted as part of the ABI.  Given that the prototype hasn't
> changed, I think you just need to accept it as a non-experimental function

Agree with Neil. Don't mark existing functions as experimental.


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